How is artificial intelligence used in psychology?
Artificial intelligence is a concept that refers to the ability of computers to perform human-like cognitive features, including learning, problem solving, perception, decision making, speech and language. As can be understood from this definition, artificial intelligence is an interdisciplinary subject. Although its past is not as old as psychology, it is actually quite intertwined with psychology. Many areas of psychology such as cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, and learning psychology are closely related to artificial intelligence.
Artificial intelligence is a relatively new concept that we use in many areas of our lives today, making our work much easier. Navigation and mapping, composing music, self-driving cars, personal assistants like Siri and Alexa are some of the simplest examples. This AI that we use is actually considered "weak AI" and is a simple form of AI. However, in the future, "strong AI" or a superintelligence that can perform most or all cognitive tasks better than humans is being considered.
In psychology, however, artificial intelligence is used to predict, diagnose and improve treatments for psychiatric disorders and is thought to have the potential to reshape psychiatry. Recording huge amounts of data can contribute to discovering predispositions to mental health problems, improving the accuracy of diagnoses, and evaluating the effectiveness of treatments. For example, artificial intelligence may be useful in identifying genes that affect the development of autism or identifying risk factors for depression. Treatment of anxiety disorders, addiction, and post-traumatic stress disorder is one of the areas where artificial intelligence is frequently used. For example, war simulation is created with virtual reality for the client, who is a war victim, and an environment is created for the client to cope with and adapt to traumatic stressors. A similar application is also seen in the treatment of phobias, virtual reality applications for various phobias have started to be used quite widely today. In the future, it is predicted that it can be used to detect problems in marriage and domestic violence, and to be used in the diagnosis and diagnosis of Alzheimer's and schizophrenia.
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